The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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Pagina 12
... circumstance , but which marked the perturbed state of his mind , checked his course .- " Your bonnet , father ? " said Jeanie , who observed he had come out with his gray hairs uncovered . He turned back with a slight blush on his ...
... circumstance , but which marked the perturbed state of his mind , checked his course .- " Your bonnet , father ? " said Jeanie , who observed he had come out with his gray hairs uncovered . He turned back with a slight blush on his ...
Pagina 14
... circumstances which would satisfactorily elide the small palms could not cover , became of the deepest charge in the libel . His client's story was a short , but most melancholy one . She was bred up in the strictest tenets of religion ...
... circumstances which would satisfactorily elide the small palms could not cover , became of the deepest charge in the libel . His client's story was a short , but most melancholy one . She was bred up in the strictest tenets of religion ...
Pagina 15
... circumstances , which fe- males in the lower - he might say which females of all ranks are so alert in noticing , that they sometimes discover them where they do not exist ? Was it strange , or was it criminal , that she should have ...
... circumstances , which fe- males in the lower - he might say which females of all ranks are so alert in noticing , that they sometimes discover them where they do not exist ? Was it strange , or was it criminal , that she should have ...
Pagina 18
... circumstances appeared to him to shape it otherwise . - Pray , young woman , did you call for . ask your sister any question when you observed her looking unwell ? -take conrage - speak out . " Young woman , " these were his words ...
... circumstances appeared to him to shape it otherwise . - Pray , young woman , did you call for . ask your sister any question when you observed her looking unwell ? -take conrage - speak out . " Young woman , " these were his words ...
Pagina 19
... circumstances of the case con- curred with those required by the act under which the unfortunate prisoner was tried : That the counsel for the panel had totally failed in proving that Eu- phemia Deans had communicated her situation to ...
... circumstances of the case con- curred with those required by the act under which the unfortunate prisoner was tried : That the counsel for the panel had totally failed in proving that Eu- phemia Deans had communicated her situation to ...
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Allan ancient answered auld bairn Balderstone better betwixt Bucklaw Butler Caleb called canna Captain Dalgetty castle Covenanters Craigengelt Crossmyloof daughter David Deans dinna door Drumthwacket Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman George Staunton gude hand Hayston head heard heart Highland honour hope horse Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jedediah Cleishbotham Lady Ashton Laird Libberton look Lord Keeper Lord Menteith Lucy M'Aulay Madge mair Marquis Master of Ravenswood maun means ment Middleburgh mind Montrose muckle never night occasion ower person poor Porteous Ranald Ratcliffe replied Reuben Roseneath Saddletree Scotland Scottish seemed Sharpit Sharpitlaw Sir Duncan Sir William Ashton sister soldier speak Staunton suld sword tell thing thou thought tion tone turn voice weel whilk Wildfire Wolf's Crag woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.